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“An intellectual feast, learned, lucid, challenging and accessible.” — San Francisco Chronicle “ Ideas crackle ” in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on “ a wild ride through the ideological currents and shoals of 20th century thought.” ( Los Angeles Times ) The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, Thinking the Twentieth Century maps the issues and concerns of a turbulent age on to a life of intellectual conflict and engagement. The twentieth century comes to life as an age of ideas—a time when, for good and for ill, the thoughts of the few reigned over the lives of the many. Judt presents the triumphs and the failures of prominent intellectuals, adeptly explaining both their ideas and the risks of their political commitments. Spanning an era with unprecedented clarity and insight, Thinking the Twentieth Century is a tour-de-force, a classic engagement of modern thought by one of the century’s most incisive thinkers. The exceptional nature of this work is evident in its very structure—a series of intimate conversations between Judt and his friend and fellow historian Timothy Snyder, grounded in the texts of the
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- Author
- Tony Judt; Timothy Snyder
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781101559871
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Science, Philosophy
Other editions & translations
- Thinking the Twentieth Century (2012)
- Thinking the Twentieth Century (2013)
- Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt (2013)
- Thinking the Twentieth Century: Intellectuals and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder (2012)
- Thinking the Twentieth Century: Intellectuals and Politics in the Twentieth Century (2012)
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